BuddyPress Friends Suggestion Pro helps you enhance your BuddyPress or BuddyBoss Platform-based social network by providing friends and follow suggestions for your users.
If you are looking for a friends suggestions widget similar to Facebook’s “People you may know ” widget, this plugin is a suitable choice for you. You can create suggestions based on user profile data.
The plugin provides you with options to create one or more rule set for matching. Each profile matching rule set can have one or more rules based on user profile field data. The plugin suggests friends/followers by matching the current logged user’s profile data with the other user’s profile data.
Features:-
- Multiple friends suggestions list based on BuddyPress or BuddyBoss user profile data.
- Multiple Follow suggestions list based on BuddyPress or BuddyBoss user profile data. For BuddyPress, you will need the BuddyPress Follow plugin.
- Can be used to show one or more Friends or Follow suggestions list in a widget for the logged-in user.
- You can create any number of the match ruleset and use them in the widget
- Each rule set may contain multiple matching conditions. You can use various operators to declare how to match.
- You can specify how to consider a match(should we consider a match if all the conditions match or anyone condition match)
- It works with BuddyPress & BuddyBoss platform well.
Screenshots:-
Friends and Follow suggestions list for BuddyPress:-
Friends and Follow suggestions list for BuddyBoss platform and theme:-
Admin Screens:-
How to use:-
To display suggestions, you will need to first create the rule and then use these rules in the widget.
Creating Friends/Follow suggestions Rules:-
- Please Login to the dashboard as a site administrator
- Visit Dashboard->Users-><Friends Suggestions Rules
- Click on “Add New”
- Add one or more rules from the page. Select “Enabled” in the right and “Publish” the rule as shown in the below screenshot.
Showing the Friends/Follow suggestions in a widget:-
- Please visit Dashboard->Appearance->Widgets
- Add “BP Friends Suggestion Pro” to your widget area
- Add a title, select “Follow or Friends” from the dropdown and select the ruleset to be used
- Save and that’s it.
- Have fun. Here is a screenshot of the widget options.
Showing the Friends/Follow suggestions using the shortcode:-
Shortcode: [bp_friends_suggestions]
Support parameters:
- user_id: Friends suggestions for the targeted user.
- context: Possible values are logged_in, displayed. Default value logged_in.
- limit: How many suggestions to show. Need user login to reflect changes after the update.
- rule: Rule id to be applied.
- type: Suggestions type i.e. friends, follow. Default value friends
